Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Life without literary studies is death.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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